The State government on Monday evening issued an "emergency" order to Additional Chief Secretaries and Secretaries of 22 departments asking them to cancel nominated heads of government-owned boards, corporations and authorities in the State.
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This will make way for induction of new leaders to occupy these places, ahead of the 2023 Assembly elections in Karnataka. With Cabinet expansion unlikely to happen and elections too close at hand, this move of the BJP government is seen as an attempt to placate disgrutled leaders who have been waiting in the wings hoping for Cabinet berths. Sources said nominated heads of 52 boards and corporations would be dropped and new leaders nominated in their place.